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- From: auyeung@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (Tak [UlTech] AuYeung)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Canon Elan - leave leader out?
- Message-ID: <20614@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:08:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.175058.1@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu> <92364.114510MPOISSON@ESOC.BITNET> <1992Dec29.090517.12765@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec29.090517.12765@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> acs@csri.toronto.edu (Alvin Chia-Hua Shih) writes:
- >In <92364.114510MPOISSON@ESOC.BITNET> <MPOISSON@ESOC.BITNET> writes:
- >
- >[...]
- >
- >Ultimately, the manufacturer out to make more money than the next guy.
- >If it finds that it can make more by forcing buyers to move "upscale"
- >what can one do?
- >
- >ACS
-
- How about making fully programmable camera bodies? I work at a
- real-time controler company, and the idea of programming a camera body
- looks pretty appealing. I imagine (dream) one can get the bottons,
- dials, photosensors, focusing aides as inputs, and control the shutter
- speed, aperture, film winding and even the flash as outputs. A
- wireless remote serial link can serve as the interface.
-
- Not entirely impossible, but the camera makers would probably lose
- profit or make this kind of camera extremely expensive...
-
- --Tak
-